France’s Prime Minister Resigns in Record Time

By Joel Hilliker • October 8, 2025

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Talks in Sharm el-Sheikh with Hamas have been going on since Monday, and today, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and adviser Jared Kushner arrived, which some see as a positive sign. Hamas has submitted the list of prisoners it wants Israel to release. We closely watch to see what will come of this effort to make terms with terrorists.

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France’s prime minister resigns in record time: France’s new prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, announced his new cabinet on Sunday. The next day, he resigned. He lasted just 27 days, making his time in office the shortest in modern French history.

Lecornu is France’s third failed prime minister in a row. France has a right-wing president and a parliament split between the far right, far left and center right. No one has figured out a way to make it work, and in the meantime the nation is sliding toward economic crisis.

President Macron formerly accepted Lecornu’s resignation on Monday but asked him to stay on two more days for a “last ditch” effort to find a solution. If he fails, as seems likely, there’s no easy solution.

Macron could make a fourth attempt at appointing a new prime minister—but after three failures this appears unlikely to succeed.
He could call fresh elections, but polls don’t indicate that will solve anything. The far-right National Rally seems likely to do even better this time around. Mainstream parties would be forced to work with a group they consider little better than the Nazis, or the center right would have to compromise with communism to form a government.
Macron himself could resign. That’s what much of the National Assembly is demanding. But I doubt he would quit power.

The situation is so dire that more extreme options are being discussed:

France could change its Constitution, forming a Sixth Republic.
Or Macron could rule as a dictator by invoking emergency powers under Article 16 of the current Constitution.

Europe has experienced these kinds of leadership crises since the 2008 economic crash. With each news cycle, they get worse. Now we’ve reached the point where someone grabbing dictatorial powers is a genuine option.

It may not happen this time around. But no solution is on the horizon—so if not now, it will happen later.

This is exactly what the Trumpet and Plain Truth have forecast for years. Europe will shift from a club of democracies to government by “10 kings”—led by a strong German leader. Watch for Europe’s government crisis to continue until that leader arrives.

Has Israel’s war been ‘liberating’? Since the Gaza war started two years ago yesterday, Israel has come a long way. In 2023, the nation was divided, unprepared and on the defensive. Now, Hamas is almost defeated; Hezbollah has been uprooted from Lebanon; Iran’s nuclear program has suffered hard blows. Today, we have a very different Middle East.

In their anniversary commemorations, some commentators claim Israel is stronger than it was on Oct. 7, 2023: To them the war has been “liberating.”

Bret Stephens for the New York Times said this war was “liberating” for the Lebanese from Hezbollah, for Syrians from Bashar Assad, for Syria’s Druze from Islamist attacks, for Gazans under Hamas and even potentially for Iranians under the ayatollah.
Caroline Glick in Jewish News Syndicate claimed Israel achieved a “list of dazzling victories following the greatest disaster in its history.” She recalled a meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held two years ago this day where he “told his still stunned cabinet that Israel would recover from the savage carnage of the previous day and it would transform the Middle East.” Glick says this has mostly been accomplished.

Israel’s feats have been remarkable, and as Gerald Flurry has written, Netanyahu’s leadership is an admirable driving force behind them.

Still, all this praise in the press recalls words from the Apostle Paul: “For when they say, ‘Peace and safety!’ then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape” (1 Thessalonians 5:3; New King James Version).

The Bible prophesies that Israel’s Palestinian problem will become a “deadly wound” that will take the nation down (Hosea 5:13). It prophesies that those Arab peoples “liberated” from Iran’s yoke will form a military alliance “that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance” (Psalm 83:4). The reality these commentators miss is that, unless the nation repents and returns to God, even harder times are coming. Mr. Flurry’s free booklet Jerusalem in Prophecy elaborates.

France’s new prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, announced his new cabinet on Sunday. The next day, he resigned. He lasted just 27 days, making his time in office the shortest in modern French history.

Macron could make a fourth attempt at appointing a new prime minister—but after three failures this appears unlikely to succeed.
He could call fresh elections, but polls don’t indicate that will solve anything. The far-right National Rally seems likely to do even better this time around. Mainstream parties would be forced to work with a group they consider little better than the Nazis, or the center right would have to compromise with communism to form a government.
Macron himself could resign. That’s what much of the National Assembly is demanding. But I doubt he would quit power.

The situation is so dire that more extreme options are being discussed:

France could change its Constitution, forming a Sixth Republic.
Or Macron could rule as a dictator by invoking emergency powers under Article 16 of the current Constitution.

It may not happen this time around. But no solution is on the horizon—so if not now, it will happen later.

Since the Gaza war started two years ago yesterday, Israel has come a long way. In 2023, the nation was divided, unprepared and on the defensive. Now, Hamas is almost defeated; Hezbollah has been uprooted from Lebanon; Iran’s nuclear program has suffered hard blows. Today, we have a very different Middle East.

In their anniversary commemorations, some commentators claim Israel is stronger than it was on Oct. 7, 2023: To them the war has been “liberating.”

Bret Stephens for the New York Times said this war was “liberating” for the Lebanese from Hezbollah, for Syrians from Bashar Assad, for Syria’s Druze from Islamist attacks, for Gazans under Hamas and even potentially for Iranians under the ayatollah.
Caroline Glick in Jewish News Syndicate claimed Israel achieved a “list of dazzling victories following the greatest disaster in its history.” She recalled a meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held two years ago this day where he “told his still stunned cabinet that Israel would recover from the savage carnage of the previous day and it would transform the Middle East.” Glick says this has mostly been accomplished.

Israel’s feats have been remarkable, and as Gerald Flurry has written, Netanyahu’s leadership is an admirable driving force behind them.

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